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Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:58:25 +0200


Am 12.09.2007 um 10:20 schrieb Leo:

If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
program exits.

Can't you put evince into the background? Either use a shell script as go-between or use a function for dired-x that was sent to the list recently, could be in May or June ... It was about launching an external programme in the background.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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